Note: Fertility & -- Infertility For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgements -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organised -- Icons Used in This Book -- Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended -- Chapter 1: In the Beginning -- Making Babies: An Inefficient Process at Best -- How Aging Affects Fertility -- Things to Think About Before You Conceive -- Timing Your Baby: The Big Picture -- Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Birth Control -- Gene Genie: Looking at the Family Tree -- Getting Pregnant: Was It Easier for Grandma? -- Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps -- Biology for Baby Makers: Reviewing Male and Female Anatomy -- Putting Male and Female Parts Together: Having Sex (At the Right Time) -- Conceiving a Baby: How Sex Should Work -- Making Sure That You're Healthy - Before Conception -- Behaving Yourself When Trying to Conceive -- Finding Information -- Part II: Planning a Pregnancy -- Chapter 3: We're Trying! We're Trying! (to Get Pregnant) -- Predicting Ovulation: Kits, Sticks, and Software -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Positive Thinking - Home Pregnancy Tests -- Coping with That Time of the Month Again: The Pain of Not Getting Pregnant -- Looking at Your Lifestyle -- Eating for Two? Sampling a Fertility Diet -- Looking at Supplements - Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and More -- Turning to Complementary Therapies -- Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP -- Deciding When the Time is Right to See Dr G Practitioner -- Thinking About FAQs for Your First Visit -- Carrying Out Tests on Your First Visit -- Choosing Over-the-counter Remedies: Placeboes or Simple Solutions? -- Chapter 5: Great Expectations . . . But: Early Pregnancy Loss -- Getting 'a Little Bit' Pregnant - It's Possible -- Suffering a Miscarriage. , Ectopic Pregnancy: When the Embryo Is Developing in the Wrong Place -- Picking Yourself Up after a Loss -- Part III: Tests and Investigations -- Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist -- Seeking Dr Specialist -- Working with Dr Specialist -- Facing the Stranger in Your Sex Life -- Understanding What Dr Specialist Says -- Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 -- Cataloguing the Common Tests: ABCD HSG -- Understanding Female Infertility Problems -- Reversing Sterilisation -- Understanding Diseases That Affect Fertility -- Chapter 8: It's a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal Sperm Problems -- Sounding Out Semen Analysis -- Interpreting Your Partner's Test Results -- Reversing a Vasectomy -- Overcoming Cancer and Male Fertility: The News Is Cautiously Optimistic -- Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions -- Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinics and Funding Treatment -- Dealing with First Reactions -- Researching Fertility Clinics -- Footing the Bill: Who Will Pay? -- Chapter 10: All The 'I's: Introducing IUI, IVF, and ICSI -- Doing the Groundwork -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Discovering IUI, IVF, and ICSI - the Basics -- Deciding How Long to Keep Trying -- Thinking Ahead: Health Effects of Fertility Treatment -- Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Treating Luteal Phase Defects -- Acquiring Help through AI -- Moving Up to Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation -- Boosting Progesterone -- Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF -- Starting an IVF Cycle: A Roller Coaster Ride of Emotions -- Taking a Shot in the Dark: Time for hCG -- Going for the Gold: The Egg Retrieval -- Doing His Duty: Your Partner Is Busy, Too -- Answering Common Egg Retrieval Questions -- Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm!. , Understanding How ICSI Works -- Knowing Who Can Benefit from ICSI -- Recognising a Good Sperm When You See One -- Thinking Ahead: Things to Know about ICSI -- Chapter 14: 'Babies on Ice': Egg Freezing and Fertility Treatment -- Freezing Eggs: Coming In from the Cold -- Reaping the Benefits of Egg Freezing -- Completing the Job: Thawing, Fertilisation, and Transfer -- Creating a Storm in a Test Tube - The Controversy over Freezing Eggs -- Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg Donor Treatments -- Using Donor Eggs: The Whys and Wherefores -- Finding an Egg Donor -- Taking Steps to Egg Donation -- Getting Support -- Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab -- Recognising a Good Egg -- Sorting Suitable Sperm -- IVF: Making an Embryo 'in Glass' -- Taking the Call from Embryology -- Grading an Embryo -- Looking at Your Uterine Lining -- Hatching Embryos - Come on Out, Guys -- Blast Off! Considering a Blastocyst Transfer -- 'One Embryo or Two?' -- Transferring Your Embryo -- Keeping Your Feet and Your Spirits Up after the Transfer -- Do's and Don'ts for the Two-Week Wait -- Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You Can Do -- Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Wait after Embryo Transfer -- Technically, You're Pregnant - Waiting for the Proof -- Sensing Every Little Twinge: The Truth about Pregnancy Symptoms -- Preparing for 'But What If?' - Having a Plan B -- Saying 'No' to Home Pregnancy Tests -- Responding to Positive News -- Considering the Next Step If IVF Doesn't Work -- Chapter 18: What's in Your Freezer? Frozen Embryo Transfers -- Facing a Few Facts about Frozen Embryos -- Discovering Why Embryos Are Frozen -- Understanding the Process of Cryopreservation -- Dealing with the Ethical Issues of Embryo Freezing -- Chapter 19: If at First You Don't Succeed: Trying IVF More than Once. , Calculating the Odds: Success Rates per IVF Cycle -- Going Back for Seconds? Considering Your Options -- I'm Okay, You're Okay - Checking On the State of Your Union -- Exploring Some Controversial Fertility Treatments -- Gearing Up for More Cycles -- Giving Up on Fertility Treatments? Considering When to Let Go -- Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options for Non-Traditional Families -- Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me and Baby Make . . . Four! -- Preparing Yourselves for Using a Donor -- Borrowing from the Sperm Bank -- Using Donor Eggs -- Receiving Donor Embryos - Embryo Adoption -- Surrogacy: Borrowing a Uterus for Nine Months -- Traditional Surrogacy - The Road Less Travelled -- Telling the Family or Keeping It to Yourself -- Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and Single Mums -- Examining the Issues That You May Face as a Same-Sex Couple -- Adoption in the Gay and Lesbian Community -- Going It Alone: Fertility Issues for the Single Parent -- Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices -- Opting to Adopt -- Trying Out Foster Parenting First -- Deciding to Live Child Free -- Working with Children -- Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas -- Looking Down the Road: Long-Term Health Effects of Fertility Medication -- Selecting the Sex: When You Absolutely, Positively, Want a Boy Or a Girl -- Selective Reduction: Making the Hardest Choice -- Dividing Up the Leftover Embryos -- Putting Old Genes into New Skins: Cytoplasmic Transfer -- Posthumous Conception: Legal and Ethical Issues -- Cloning and Human Concerns -- Saving Stem Cells for Research -- 'Welfare of the Child': Asking Clinics to Decide Who's Fit to Parent -- Making Mistakes in the Lab: When Saying You're Sorry Isn't Enough -- Where Is All This Leading? New Fertility Frontiers -- Part VII: The Part of Tens. , Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep You Sane!) -- Give Yourself Time -- Don't Panic -- Remember You're Not Alone -- Don't Blame Yourself -- Listen to Friends - Occasionally -- Don't Delay Treatment -- Don't Freak about the Financing -- Don't Get Needled about Needles -- Share Your Treatment Experience -- Coming to Terms with No Success -- Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medications and Where to Find Them -- Gonadotrophins -- GnRH Agonists -- GnRH Antagonists -- hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) Intramuscular -- hCG Subcutaneous Recombinant -- Progesterone -- Clomiphene Citrate -- Locating What You Need -- Index.

Note: Cover image -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright page -- Contents of Volume 2 -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Patterns of Development in Insect Parasites -- I Introduction -- II The Idiobiont-Koinobiont Dichotomy -- III Patterns of Parasite Development and Growth -- IV Parasite Development and Host Ecology -- V Developmental Strategies -- VI Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 2: Games Parasites Play: The Dynamic Roles of Proteins and Peptides in the Relationship between Parasite and Host -- I Parasitism-Induced Changes: Host Responses or Parasite-Directed Host Manipulation? -- II Parasitism- and Polydnavirus-lnduced Peptides and Proteins in Insect Hosts -- III Parasitic Effects on Endogenous Proteins, Enzymes, and Peptides -- IV Comparisons with Parasitism- and Virus-Induced Changes in Other Systems -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 3: Hormonal Interactions between Insect Endoparasites and Their Host Insects -- I Introduction and Terminology -- II Hormones Controlling Insect Development: An Overview -- III Parasite Hormones Relative to Those of Their Hosts -- IV Direct or Indirect Host Endocrine Effects on Endoparasites -- V Direct or Indirect Effects of Endoparasites on Host Endocrine System -- VI Limitations -- VII Possible Solutions -- VIII Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 4: Reproductive Disturbances Induced by Parasites and Pathogens of Insects -- I Introduction -- II Microparasites -- III Nematodes -- IV Cestodes -- V Endoparasitic Insects -- VI Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Behavioral Effects of Parasites and Pathogens in Insect Hosts -- I Introduction -- II Review of Altered Behavior in Parasitized Insects -- III Potential Benefits to Parasite -- IV Potential Benefits to Host -- V Considerations for Future Research -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 6: Redirection of Host Metabolism and Effects on Parasite Nutrition. , I Introduction -- II Insect Parasitism and Host Viability -- III Altered Metabolite Levels in Host Tissues -- IV Metabolic Alteration in Insect Hosts -- V Basis for Metabolic Alterations: Hormones, Viruslike Particles, and Parasite Mediation -- VI Nutritional Consequences of Metabolic Redirection and Physiological Alteration -- VII "Host Regulation" and Its Role in Redirecting Host Metabolism and Physiology -- VIII Enantiostasis and Metabolic Regulation -- IX Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Teratocytes: Developmental and Biochemical Characteristics -- I Introduction -- II Origins -- III Distribution within Taxonomic Groups -- IV Developmental Characteristics -- V Physiological and Biochemical Characteristics -- VI Interactions of Teratocytes, Venoms, and Polydnavirus -- VII Conclusion and Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 8: The Polydnavirus Life Cycle -- I Introduction -- II Life Cycle -- III Future Directions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 9: Polydnavirus Genome Organization -- I Introduction -- II Polydnaviruses as Part of Biological Systems -- III Multipartite Genome Structure -- IV Genome Packaging -- V Intraspecific Genomic Complexity -- VI Transcription and Gene Families -- VII Polydnavirus Transmission, Integration, and Replication -- VIII Polydnavirus Evolution -- IX Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 10: Venoms of Parasitic Hymenoptera as Investigatory Tools -- I Introduction -- II Uses of Venoms in Addressing Questions in Various Scientific Fields -- III Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 11: Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Mosquito Susceptibility to Plasmodium and Filarioid Nematodes -- I Introduction -- II Immune Mechanisms in Mosquitoes -- III Genetic Control of Susceptibility/Refractoriness -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 12: Cellular Defense Responses of Insects: Unresolved Problems -- I Introduction. , II Main Events in Insect Immune Reactivity -- III Specific Problems in Insect Immunity -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 13: The Response to Foreign Tissue Transplants in Insects -- I Introduction: What Is the Significance of Studying Graft Rejection in Insects? -- II Historical Perspective -- III Mediation and Regulation of the Roach Graft Response -- IV Discussion and Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 14: Regulation of Insect Hemolymph Phenoloxidases -- I Introduction -- II Prophenoloxidase Activation -- III Control Mechanisms of the Cascade -- IV Conclusion -- Index to Volumes 1 and 2.

Note: Ebook , Introduction: Themes and Objectives-- Water Emergencies: Opening remarks-- Water is life: a view of organisational resilience in the Australian water industry-- Online toxicity monitors and their use in distribution system and watershed early warning systems-- Water supply security issues and trends-- Consequence management within the Environmental Protection Agency's water security initiative-- Application of a risk based approach to security and integrity of assets - a regulators view-- Let's get real: Real world experiences with real-time on-line monitoring for security and quality. Detecting and responding to events-- The organisational culture of managing incidents and risks in the water sector-- A simulation tool for contaminant warning system design and evaluation-- CBRN modelling: application to water contamination-- Planning, preparedness and security of the alternative water supply-- Procedures for the decontamination of building plumbing systems-- Lessons learned from summer floods 2007. Phase 1 report - Emergency response prepared by Water UK's Review Group on flooding-- Risk assessment methodology for water utilities - RAM-WTM - lessons learned-- Risk-based approaches to water quality management: integrating public health metrics in water safety planning-- How standards can assist the assessment of, recovery and prevention of future emergencies-- The XX edition of the Torino Olympic Games experience: planning for and responding to drinking water contamination threats-- Sensitive, selective and simple UV-spectrometry for contaminant alarm systems-- Fully automated instrumentation for nucleic acid testing in the field-- Optimisation of NMR methodology for non-targeted detection of water contaminants-- Preventing water contamination - a co-ordinated response-- Potential sources of man-made radiochemical contamination of water resources with special emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle-- Rapid methods-- Processing and databasing spectroscopic analyses and its use in the elucidation of unkowns-- Handbooks to assist in the management of a radiological incident involving the contamination of drinking water supplies-- Robust on-line total organic carbon (TOC) analyser for security monitoring-- Water UK emergency planning-- The Scottish Waterborne Hazard Plan-- Research related to water security-- Early warning and reports-- OK, we've got a problem, so who do we tell? Inter-agency communication - a water company view-- Review and evaluation of water concentration technologies for analysis by real-time PCR-- Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell (STAC) - getting timely public health advice to multi-agency frontline responders-- Communicating with the public during water contamination events: addressing vulnerable populations-- Medical preparedness for water contamination events-- Keeping the public on-side and maintaining reputation-- Sociological and psychological constraints to learning from failure-- Lessons learned from major contamination incidents - a discussion-- Review of conference-- List of posters-- Subject Index.

Note: Intro -- The Water Framework Directive -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- SECTION 1 GENERAL WFD MONITORING FEATURES -- 1.1 Water Status Monitoring under the WFD -- 1.2 Chemical Monitoring of Surface Waters -- 1.3 The Monitoring of Ecological Status of European Freshwaters -- SECTION 2 CASE STUDIES ON MONITORING DIFFERENT AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS UNDER THE WFD -- 2.1 Lake Monitoring in Sweden -- 2.2 River Monitoring -- 2.3 Groundwater Monitoring: Implementation in Two Member States -- 2.4 Coastal and Marine Monitoring -- SECTION 3 ANALYTICAL TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WFD MONITORING -- 3.1 Emerging Methods for Water Monitoring in the Context of the WFD -- 3.2 Diagnostic Water Quality Instruments for Use in the European Water Framework Directive -- SECTION 4 MODELLING TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WFD MONITORING -- 4.1 Joint Modelling and Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystems -- 4.2 Integrated River Basin Management: Harmonised Modelling Tools and Decision-making Process -- SECTION 5 HYDROGEOLOGICAL COMPONENTS AND GROUNDWATER STATUS -- 5.1 Groundwater Quality Monitoring: The Overriding Importance of Hydrogeologic Typology (and Need for 4D Thinking) -- 5.2 Contribution of Hydrogeological Mapping to Water Monitoring Programmes -- 5.3 Establishing Environmental Groundwater Quality Standards -- SECTION 6 SEDIMENT MONITORING -- 6.1 Sediment Dynamics and their Influence on the Design of Monitoring Programmes -- 6.2 Monitoring Sediment Quality Using Toxicity Tests as Primary Tools for any Risk Assessment -- SECTION 7 RISK ASSESSMENT LINKED TO MONITORING -- 7.1 River Basin Risk Assessment Linked to Monitoring and Management -- 7.2 Emerging Contaminants in the Water-sediment System: Case Studies of Pharmaceuticals and Brominated Flame Retardants in the Ebro River Basin. , 7.3 Assessment of Metal Bioavailability and Natural Background Levels - WFD Monitoring from the Perspective of Metals Industry -- 7.4 Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: the Euro-limpacs Project -- SECTION 8 ENSURING DATA QUALITY -- 8.1 NORMAN - Network of Reference Laboratories for Monitoring of Emerging Substances -- 8.2 Data Quality Assurance of Sediment Monitoring -- SECTION 9 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS -- 9.1 Reporting Requirements for Priority Substances -- SECTION 10 CONCLUSIONS -- 10.1 Needs for an Operational Science-Policy Mechanism in Support of WFD Monitoring - National and Regional Examples -- 10.2 Support for WFD Research Needs: Current Activities and Future Perspectives in the Context of RTD Framework Programmes -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Gastrointestinal Endocrinology: Receptors and Post-Receptor Mechanisms -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Role of Receptors in Expression of Gastrointestinal Harmone Function -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2. Gastrointestinal Hormone Receptors and Receptor-Regulation -- ENDOCRINE REGULATION -- AUTO-REGULATION OF GASTRIN RECEPTORS -- AUTO-REGULATION OF CCK-RECEPTORS ON GUINEA PIG GALLBLADDERS -- HETERO-REGULATION OF GUT PEPTIDE HORMONE RECEPTORS -- REGULATORY EFFECTS OF PGL AND SOMATOSTATIN ON GR -- REGULATORY EFFECTS OF E2 ON GASTRIN, BOMBESIN AND CCK RECEPTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3. Multifunctional Role of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in the Regulation of Cell Growth -- THE EGF RECEPTOR -- INHIBITION OF CELL PROLIFERATION -- EGF AND THE EXOCRINE PANCREAS -- EGF AND PANCREATIC CANCER -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4. Regulation of Intracellular Calcium Release and Calcium Uptake by Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in Exocrine Glands -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5. Cellular Calcium and Phospholipid Metabolism Mediate Pancreatic Enzyme Secretion -- AGONIST-STIMULATED CALCIUM METABOLISM IN THE PANCREATIC ACINAR CELLS -- ROLE OF CALCIUM AS A MESSENGER OF ENZYME SECRETION -- INTRACELLULAR MEDIATORS OF SUSTAINED RESPONSE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6. Heterogeneity of Receptors and Signal Transduction Pathways in Smooth Muscle Cells of the Gut -- DISTINCT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS FOR LIGANDS IN CELLS FROM ADJACENT MUSCLE LAYERS -- DISTINCT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS FOR ONE LIGAND IN SINGLE MUSCLE CELLS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7. Biochemical Characterization of Receptors for the Cholecystokinin Family of Hormones. , RECEPTOR CHARACTERIZATION BY AFFINITY LABELING -- CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PANCREATIC CCK RECEPTOR BY AFFINITY LABELING -- ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS INTO THE PANCREATIC CCK RECEPTOR BASED ON STUDIES WITH A UNIQUE PROBE -- PARTIAL PURIFICATION OF THE PANCREATIC CCK RECEPTOR -- BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF OTHER RECEPTORS FOR THE CCK FAMILY PEPTIDES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8. Cholecystokinin Receptor Antagonists: Ability to Distinguish Various Classes of Cholecystokinin Receptors -- CLASSES OF CCK RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS (Table I) -- CCK RECEPTOR CLASSIFICATION -- AFFINITY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF CCK RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS FOR DIFFERENT ANTAGONISTS FOR DIFFERENT CLASSES OF CCK RECEPTORS -- COMPARISON OF PANCREATIC CCK RECEPTORS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9. Cholecystokinin Gene Expression -- STRUCTURE OF RAT PREPROCHOLECYSTOKININ (5) -- THE RAT CHOLECYSTOKININ GENE -- ESTABLISHMENT OF A CCK-PRODUCING CELL LINE -- REGULATION OF THE CCK GENE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10. Human and Mouse Amylase Genes in Transgenic Mice -- METHODS AND RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11. Studies on Gastrin Posttranslational Processing -- POSTTRANSLATIONAL PROCESSING OF GASTRIN -- POSTTRANSLATIONAL PROCESSING INTERMEDIATES OF GASTRIN -- GASTRIN BIOSYNTHESIS EXPERIMENTS -- GASTRIN EXPRESSION IN HETEROLOGOUS CELL LINES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12. Cell-Specific Expression and Processing of Procholecystokinin and Progastrin -- STRUCTURE OF PROGASTRIN -- STRUCTURE OF PROCCK -- TISSUES SYNTHESIZING PROGASTRIN AND PROCCK -- TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROCESSING -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13. Pancreatic Polypeptide, Peptide YY, and Secretin Gene Expression -- PANCREATIC POLYPEPTIDE -- PEPTIDE YY -- SECRETIN -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14. Modern Imaging at the Cellular Level. , IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY -- ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ELECTRON IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY -- DEMONSTRATION OF PEPTIDE GENE EXPRESSION: IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION -- PEPTIDE RECEPTOR LOCALIZATION -- OTHER TECHNIQUES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15. Gastrointestinal Peptides and Autocrine Growth Effects -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16. Primary Cultures of Pancreatic Acinar Cells -- CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURED ACINAR CELLS -- DIFFERENTIATION OF ACINAR CELLS IN CULTURE -- HORMONAL RESPONSIVENESS -- ENERGY REQUIREMENTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17. Trophic Effects of Cholecystokinin on the Exocrine Pancreas -- EFFECTS OF EXOGENOUS CCK -- MECHANISM OF CCK-INDUCED PANCREATIC GROWTH -- DOES CCK REGULATE PANCREATIC GROWTH? -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 18. Involvement of Somatostatin in Pancreatic Growth -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19. Pancreatic Adaptation Involves Regulation of Gene Expression by Cholecystokinin -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 20. Growth of Normal and Malignant Gastrointestinal Cells in Culture: Differential Responses to Peptides -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 21. Effect of Gastrointestinal Hormones on Neoplastic Growth -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 22. Gastrin is a Hormonal Stimulant of the Intestinal, Gastric and Cephalic Phases of Acid Secretion in Dogs -- METHODS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 23. Pancreatic Enzymes in Feedback Regulation of Cholecystokinin Release -- FEEDBACK REGULATION OF PANCREATIC ENZYME SECRETION -- CHOLECYSTOKININ (CCK) MEDIATES FEEDBACK REGULATION OF PANCREATIC ENZYME SECRETION -- EVIDENCE FOR THE PRESENCE OF A TRYPSIN-SENSITIVE "CCK-RELEASING PEPTIDE" (CCK-RP). , EXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION OF CCK-RP FROM PORCINE INTESTINAL MUCOSA -- CCK-RP VERSUS PANCREATIC MONITOR PEPTIDE IN THE MEDIATION OF FEEDBACK REGULATION OF PANCREATIC ENZYME SECRETION -- PHYSIOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CCK-RP TO MEDIATE PROTEIN-STIMULATED PANCREATIC ENZYME SECRETION -- SOMATOSTATIN INHIBITS FEEDBACK REGULATION OF PANCREATIC ENZYME SECRETION: ACTIVATION OF INHIBITORY REGULATORY PROTEIN TO INHIBIT SECRETION OF CCK-RP -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 24. Bile Salts in Cholecystokinin Feedback -- STUDIES IN DOGS, GUINEA PIGS, AND MICE -- STUDIES IN HUMANS -- CORRELATION BETWEEN CCK RADIOIMMUNOASSAY AND BIOASSAY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 25. Neuronal Actions of Cholecystokinin -- CHARACTERIZATION OF CCK RECEPTORS -- DISTRIBUTION OF A- AND B-TYPE CCK RECEPTORS ON NEURONS -- VAGALLY-MEDIATED EFFECTS OF EXOGENOUS CCK -- VAGO-VAGAL REFLEX ACTIONS OF CCK -- CCK AND GASTRIC EMPTYING -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 26. The Role of Pancreatic Polypeptide in Glucose Metabolism -- PREVIOUS STUDIES -- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF PANCREATOGENIC DIABETES -- HEPATIC GLUCOSE REGULATION IN PANCREATOGENIC DIABETES -- PP REGULATION OF HEPATIC GLUCOSE PRODUCTION -- EFFECTS OF PP ON ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE -- POSSIBLE MECHANISMS OF ACTION -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT OF DIABETIC STATES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 27. Immunologie and Biologic Properties of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 28. Peptide YY Release and Actions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 29. Receptor Mediated Biologic Actions of Cholecystokinin -- CHARACTERIZATION OF L- 364,718 ON AMYLASE SECRETION IN ISOLATED RAT PANCREATIC ACINI -- INHIBITION OF BIOLOGIC ACTIONS OF EXOGENOUS CCK BY L-364,718 IN CONSCIOUS DOGS. , INHIBITION OF BIOLOGIC ACTIONS OF ENDOGENOUSLY-RELEASED CCK BY L-364,718 IN CONSCIOUS DOGS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 30. The Cell Biology of Acute Pancreatitis -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES -- COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 31. Somatostatin: Treatment of Gut Endocrinopathies and a Mechanism of Action -- HISTORICAL AND PRESENT DAY PERSPECTIVE -- GASTROENTEROPANCREATIC TUMORS -- THERAPY OF GEP ENDOCRINE TUMORS -- SANDOSTATIN ACTIONS ON SELECTED GEP ENDOCRINE TUMORS -- SUGGESTED MECHANISM OF ACTION OF SANDOSTATIN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 32. Cytoprotective Effects of Somatostatin on Experimental Diabetes -- MATERIAL AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 33. Actions of Parathyroid Hormone on the Gut -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 34. Inhibitory Mechanisms of the Exocrine Pancreas -- INHIBITION BY REMOVAL OF TONIC STIMULATION -- ACTION OF INHIBITORY HUMORAL AGENTS -- ACTION ON INTRINSIC PANCREATIC NEURONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 35. Autocrine/Paracrine Growth Factors of Human Malignancies -- EXOGENOUS REQUIREMENTS -- ENDOGENOUS PRODUCTION -- MOLECULAR GENETIC APPROACH -- FUTURE THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 36. Clinical Syndromes of Gut Hormones -- GASTRIN AND ENTEROCHROMAFFIN-LIKE CELL HYPERPLASIA -- ENTEROCYTE GROWTH -- GLP-1 7-6 AMIDE AND INSULIN RELEASE -- GLUCAGONOMA SYNDROME -- VIPoma SYNDROME -- NO PPoma SYNDROME -- ACROMEGALY, CUSHING'S SYNDROME, AND OTHERS -- GASTRINOMA SYNDROME -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 37. Hormonal Mechanisms in Gallbladder Motility -- REFERENCES -- Index.

Note: BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 THE RECEIVED VIEW -- THE NEWTONIAN HERITAGE -- Newton's experimentum crucis -- The Newtonian conception of colour -- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES -- THE PROBLEM-SPACE OF THE RECEIVED VIEW -- 2 COLOUR VISION: RECENT THEORIES AND RESULTS -- APPROACHES TO COLOUR VISION -- Psychophysics and physiology -- Computational vision -- THE PHENOMENAL STRUCTURE OF COLOUR -- PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSICS -- Visual pigments, photoreceptors, and additive colour mixture -- Postreceptoral mechanisms and opponent processes -- Psychophysical issues about the postreceptoral channels -- Physiological issues about the postreceptoral channels -- Cortical connections -- COMPUTATIONAL COLOUR VISION -- Colour constancy and the 'natural image' -- Global computations and lightness -- Criticisms of the retinex theory -- The linear models framework (LMF) -- Spatial segmentation -- Summary -- LEVELS OF EXPLANATION AND COLOUR SPACE -- Levels of explanation -- Colour space: a resume -- The case of colour constancy -- 3 NATURALISTIC ONTOLOGIES -- EXPLANATION AND DESCRIPTIVE VOCABULARIES -- COMPUTATIONAL OBJECTIVISM -- Colour and wavelength -- Colour and surface reflectance: anthropocentric realism -- The argument from external irreducibility -- NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVISM -- BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND SUBJECTIVISM -- 4 THE COMPARATIVE ARGUMENT -- INTRODUCING COMPARATIVE COLOUR VISION -- COMPARATIVE COLOUR SPACES -- A bird's-eye view -- Colour hyperspaces and novel colours -- THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF COLOUR VISION -- Molecular biology of the visual pigments and psychophysics -- Visual ecology -- THE COMPARATIVE ARGUMENT -- Computational objectivism revisited9 -- The argument from perceiver-relativity -- Neurophysiological subjectivism revisited. , 5 THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW -- THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL -- PERCEPTION AND THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL -- Representationism revisited -- Gibson's 'ecological approach' -- The ecological approach and computational vision -- Integrating computational vision, neuroscience, and the ecological level: an action-based paradigm -- WHERE IS COLOUR? -- 6 VISUAL EXPERIENCE AND THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW -- SENSATIONALISM -- Nagel and the subjective character of perceptual experience -- Novel colours and Jackson's knowledge argument5 -- COGNITIVISM: DENNETT'S DISQUALIFICATION OF QUALIA -- VISUAL EXPERIENCE, SCIENCE, AND THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.